This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 299th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Pretty much everything with my work in progress Wayfare has progressed at a slow and steady pace to put it mildly. I've been plotting

along with its midpoint of late and it's been a toughie to put together, surprise

surprise on this project.

So many working pieces to fit together as my protagonist and antagonist come together for their

first big battle.

But I think all the hard work has paid off and I'm

extremely happy with how it's turning out. I think it's the best

midpoint moment of truth slash mirror moment I've ever written so you know I'm doing a

Snoopy dance over that one.

The latest post on my blog is What Jurassic Park can teach you about compounding conflict

in your story?

It shows you how you can up the ante in any story by using the important technique of compounding conflict. To find the

post visit my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you

enjoyed this week's podcast entitled The Hardest Part of

writing good character arts and how you can make it look easy. Character arcs are easy, right?

Somewhere in between the beginning and the middle of the book,

the character changes.

What could be simpler?

And yet, when we get right down to the nitty-gritties, character

arcs are also pretty darn hard. Why? Because humans never change in simplistic, easy, on and off like a light switch ways.

We change slowly, sometimes invisibly, and always inch by complicated inch.

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